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Immigrants Against the State / Kenyon Zimmer

Public ISBD Title : Immigrants Against the State Original title : Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America Material Type: printed text Authors: Kenyon Zimmer, Author Publisher: Illinois [United States] : University of Illinois Press Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-252-08092-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Anarchism Immigration and Refugees Issues Political Thought Politics Keywords: Anarchism  Immigrants  Transnational Identities  Politics Abstract: "From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the pre–World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies." (Back Cover) Immigrants Against the State = Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America [printed text] / Kenyon Zimmer, Author . - Illinois (1325 South Oak Street, 61820-690, United States) : University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN : 978-0-252-08092-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Anarchism Immigration and Refugees Issues Political Thought Politics Keywords: Anarchism  Immigrants  Transnational Identities  Politics Abstract: "From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the pre–World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies." (Back Cover)

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All Our Trials / Emily L. Thuma

Public ISBD Title : All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence Material Type: printed text Authors: Emily L. Thuma, Author Publisher: Illinois [United States] : University of Illinois Press Publication Date: 2019 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-252-08412-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Feminism Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Police Brutality Prisons and Criminalization Abstract: During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime" political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle––one that continues in today’s movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice. All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence [printed text] / Emily L. Thuma, Author . - Illinois (1325 South Oak Street, 61820-690, United States) : University of Illinois Press, 2019. ISBN : 978-0-252-08412-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Feminism Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Police Brutality Prisons and Criminalization Abstract: During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime" political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle––one that continues in today’s movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice.

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FEM THU 2019	FEM THU 2019	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Feminism	Available